<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ky3@atamo.com" target="_blank">ky3@atamo.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
&lt;tangential rant&gt; There is a reason why the prelude is called as such and not &quot;the standard library&quot;, which is a term I don&#39;t think you can find in the language specs.</blockquote></div><br>The word &quot;standard&quot; does not appear as such, but it can be inferred...<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellpa2.html#x20-192000II">http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellpa2.html#x20-192000II</a></div><div>Haskell 2010 Language Report: The Haskell 2010 Libraries</div>
<div><br></div><div>Note however that the language of the Report&#39;s preface applies: this is not intended to be a standard library in the sense usually meant by newcomers, but a conservative minimum required by all conformant implementations. (It&#39;s also not limited to the Prelude; neither was Haskell98&#39;s version.)<br clear="all">
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